PT-2017-12114
CVE-2017-11576
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Published
2017-07-23
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Updated
2020-01-13
Description by
CVSS 3.1
5.5
MediumMetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
FontForge version 20161012
Description
The issue arises from a failure to ensure a positive size in a weight vector memcpy call in the readcfftopdict function, located in parsettf.c. This can lead to a denial of service (DoS) when a crafted otf file is processed.
Recommendations
For FontForge version 20161012, consider updating to a newer version that addresses this issue, as the current version does not properly validate input, leading to potential denial of service attacks. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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